Blue Physics
Poetry by Mary Lou Buschi
$18.00
Praise for Blue Physics
Through textured landscapes and vivid, bittersweet memories, Mary Lou Buschi invites us into a life in which “not everyone wants to be found.” These restrained and tender poems which explore grief, family and growing up Catholic in the 1970s also speak to the riddles of life, death and haunting. In a world where “a Cardinal with one wing whispers our names” and where “white clouds, the size of Bowhead whales” loom in our atmosphere, what does it mean to love and to remember? Blue Physics captures the essence of what it means to “open your mouth wide when you bite the sun,” to acknowledge the burdens, mysteries and magic all around us as we go on “aiming at some cold invisible moon,” and even as we “disappear into a flask of light.”
Joan Kwon Glass, Author of Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022)
About the Author
Mary Lou Buschi’s (she/her) collections of poetry are Paddock (Lily Poetry Review Books 2021), Awful Baby, (Red Paint Hill 2015), and 3 chapbooks: Ukiyo-e, Tight Wire, and The Spell of Coming (or Going). Mary Lou holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and
a Master of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals such as “Ploughshares,” “Glacier,” “FIELD,” “Willow Springs,” “Indiana Review.” “Radar,” “Tar River,” “Rhino,” and “The Laurel Review.” She lives in Nyack, NY and is a full-time special education teacher in the Bronx.